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Listening to Giant Bomb reassessing Sekiro, saying wild things like "GOTY over Outer Wilds for the year" (Wrong, but the enthusiasm is warranted).

I am once again reminded about how almost my entire friend group and many Bloodborne enjoyers dismissed Sekiro for no obvious reason.

We're about to go live with the ICE Out Charity Stream from the MinnMax Studio! We have @grubb.wtf and @danryckert.com and @jacobgeller.com in Minneapolis to help protect our neighbors! www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow

Donate here - bit.ly/iceoutminnea...

Really? I assumed it was the same kind of games all over Steam, just with sfw screenshots on the store.

Doesn't 90% of the Switch digital catalog have hentai in the name at this point?

My Favorite Games of 2025 The weird, wild, scary world of gaming (and everything else), plus my ten favorites of 2025.

Okay, next year I'm doing this in December. January has been so insane that GOTY 2025 feels like it happened 6 months ago. At least the vibes I'm bringing in my intro feel true to the moment: redringcircus.com/2026/01/27/m...

MinnMax is teaming up with @giantbomb.bsky.social this Friday at 5pm Central for an ICE Out charity stream from our studio in Minneapolis.

It'll be simulcast on all channels...

www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow
www.youtube.com/minnmax
www.twitch.tv/giantbomb
www.youtube.com/giantbomb

Yeah it's kind of bad on both sides though.

I think you're misunderstanding the problem. They're not printing "enough cards for everyone" they're doing new releases of cards faster than people want and it is exhausting. There is still scarcity within each release.

I've been trying to get notifications when specific users post and it works for some but not others. I've deleted the app and cleared cache multiple times.

One of the things that gets lost in the Twitter vs. Bluesky discussion is that while the vibes are better here, the phone app is horrible.

I'm not even the biggest Mortal Kombat fan and the MK Legacy Kollection is easily my favorite of these documentary video game collections they've done. If they ever do a game I have really deep nostalgia for I'm going to lose my mind.

Prelude to a Top 10 – Red Ring Circus Award Sideshow Part one of my GOTY 2025 coverage, celebrating and criticizing the noteworthy games and gaming moments that didn’t make it into my top 10 list.

I have a 2025 top 10 coming very soon, but I wanted to discuss some games and other items that didn't crack into that top 10 format. So, here it is, in silly award show style! redringcircus.com/2026/01/11/p...

It's also the perfect game for me right now because my nose is so runny that I can't really play anything for more than a few minutes at a time anyway.

Kirby Air Riders is so weird. It's simultaneously very polished and a chaotic mess of ideas that barely holds together. Every activity is like 30 seconds long and you can do the entire story mode in a few hours. It's not amazing but it is has such an energy to my that I can't help but respect it.

Please bear this in mind if you consider grabbing Hogwarts Legacy for free, thinking that you can accept/play it without it now doing harm. It's free to you but comes with a cost elsewhere.

Death Howl Earns its “Soulslike Deckbuilder” Tagline with a Challenging, Rewarding, and Beautiful Spirit Journey Death Howl bills itself as a “Soulslike Deckbuilder”. In this review I examine what it means to be a turn-based strategy card game inspired by Dark Souls.

It took me a full week longer than intended, but here is my review of Death Howl. It's has cards, it's has tiles, and it's really good (with some caveats)! redringcircus.com/2025/12/12/d...

Signed up! This is a very cool offer.

Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 10 Steam codes for Simogo Legacy Collection from @simogo.com. Giveaway closes on December 6th at 6 PM PT

Game is available now for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and Steam simogo.com/work/simogol...

Indie dev Santa Ragione facing closure after Steam ban The Italian studio's upcoming horror title, Horses, has been barred from Steam ahead of its release in December.

I really loved Saturnalia and I'm excited for Santa Ragione's next game Horses. I'll be buying it on a platform that actually respects developers enough to communicate with them when it is literally life and death for the studio: www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...

With Ninja Gaiden 4, PlatinumGames Tests How Far We’re Willing to Go for Good Combat Almost everything about Ninja Gaiden 4 is bad, and yet I kind of love it.

Ninja Gaiden 4 is a baffling package that had me questioning my taste in games. In so many respects it is terrible, and yet I couldn't put it down. My review: redringcircus.com/2025/11/22/w...

Been playing Arc Raiders pretty casually, maybe 20-25 hours so far if I had to guess?

Watching people burn out on it within weeks of launch has me genuinely thinking that this hobby—my favorite hobby that I plan to do until I die—is truly unhealthy for a lot of people.

Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 4 codes for Tomb Raider Definitive Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 (NA eShop Code) courtesy of @aspyr.com. Giveaway closes on Nov 21st, 6 PM PT.

Game is out now on Nintendo Switch & Switch 2 (no upgrade paths)

Ninja Gaiden 4 has to be one of the worst games I've ever been unable to put down. It's aesthetically vile, padded out with a billion fights, and the combat isn't as clean and readable as the old NG games. And yet, it's probably the best-playing and thrilling character action game since Bayonetta.

Double Fine's Keeper is a wild game. It gets better and better as it goes and every frame of it is rich with visual and audio creativity. The gameplay is a bit of a ride with simple puzzles that keep things engaging. Reminded me of Ecco the Dolphin, Panzer Dragoon, and Phil Tippett's film Mad God.

A sweet treat once a week is a rounding error compared to my electric bill, which itself is a rounding error compared to the cost of rent.

Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Once Upon a Katamari courtesy of @gamesplanet.bsky.social. Giveaway closes on Oct 27th, 6:30 PM PT

Game is $32.97 on Gamesplanet w/ code KATAMARI buff.ly/j4qOsMG

Extraction shooters are a tired genre that everyone seems to hate as an involuntary reaction. Seems to be one of the big issues with Marathon. So it's funny to go from The Division's Dark Zone years ago straight to Arc Raiders and be like, "wow this is cool as hell," without all that baggage.

YouTube video by Double Fine Keeper - Official Launch Trailer

Just remember next year, when EVERYBODY'S making walking lighthouse games, that we were first!
(Keeper is out RIGHT NOW on Xbox & Windows & Steam!)
youtu.be/CDmvkGUSWzI?...

Crazy how many guides I watched and none of them ever mentioned this...